May 20- A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday cleared the way for RadioShack Corp to sell its brand name and customer data to a Standard General affiliate for about $26 million, rejecting a competing bidder's claim that the auction process was unfair. Those matters were the last major hurdles to the bankrupt electronics chain's plan to sell its intellectual...

WILMINGTON, Del, May 18- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday urged a bankruptcy court to protect information that RadioShack Corp collected from tens of millions of customers before the retailer filed for Chapter 11.. RadioShack filed for bankruptcy this year and put up for auction its lists of customer names, e-mail addresses and purchase histories.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13- The auction for bankrupt electronic retailer RadioShack's brand and customer data has closed with the Standard General hedge fund posting a winning bid of $26.2 million after objections piled up to their sale. Standard General affiliate General Wireless, which had already bought more than 1,700 RadioShack stores, on Tuesday won the...

WILMINGTON, Del, April 14- The number of bankruptcies among publicly traded U.S. companies has climbed to the highest first-quarter level for five years, according to a Reuters analysis of data from research firm bankruptcompanynews.com. The $34 billion in assets held by the 26 companies is the second highest for a first quarter in the past decade.

WILMINGTON, Del, March 27- A lender to bankrupt RadioShack Corp told a U.S. judge on Friday it was prepared to present a new offer that was a "significant improvement" over a rival proposal that was selected as a winning bidder at an auction this week. RadioShack's advisers declared that Standard General had outbid Salus, RadioShack's largest creditor, at a four-day...

WILMINGTON, Del., March 26- A deal to keep 1,740 RadioShack Corp stores open hangs in the balance in a Delaware court after its top creditor, a losing bidder in an auction for the bankrupt retailer, called the process a "sham" and demanded a new sale. RadioShack, which filed for bankruptcy last month, told a U.S. While RadioShack's attorney told the court the deal saved...

March 26- Personal information gathered by RadioShack Corp from shoppers is not included in its sale, the consumer privacy ombudsman in the electronics retailer's bankruptcy case said in response to concerns shared by several states that the data could be sold. Her letter came as Oregon and Pennsylvania on Wednesday joined Texas and Tennessee in objecting...

WILMINGTON, Del., March 26- RadioShack Corp's rescue deal to keep 1,740 stores open was attacked on Thursday by the bankrupt retailer's top creditor, a failed bidder who called the auction a sham and sought a new sale. RadioShack, which filed for bankruptcy last month, told a U.S. An attorney for Salus Capital Partners, which is owed $150 million and is RadioShack's...

March 25- An auction for RadioShack Corp failed to resolve whether the electronics retailer will remain in business as bidders attacked each in court filings, setting up a showdown before a judge on Thursday. By early Wednesday, however, one of RadioShack's lenders, Salus Capital Partners, asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge overseeing the case to intervene.

March 25- A RadioShack Corp lender asked a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge to intervene in the auction of the electronics retailer and said it had submitted a bid to liquidate the chain that was "materially superior" to one favored by RadioShack. The lender said, however, that RadioShack favored a proposal from hedge fund Standard General, even though its bid included...

March 4- The judge overseeing RadioShack Corp's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case on Wednesday approved a revised $1.5 million bonus plan for eight top executives at the electronics retailer, over the objection of the U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brendan Shannon said that while he shared some of the trustee's concerns over the key executive incentive plan, or KEIP, he was...